Sunshine Cleaning Movie Blurb by Shale April 1, 2009 This is the movie I had intended to see last weekend, except for the wet, no-fun-bicycling-to-the-cinema weather. So, first day of a weeklong vacation I got to pick it up this movie on a beautiful South Florida day. I wanted to see this movie because the trailers showed a family drama/comedy involving a cleanup service for after those bloody crime scenes and suicides. Our main character in the family is hard working, low self-esteem housekeeper Rose (Amy Adams) just making a living for her and son Oscar (Jason Spevack). The rest of the family is her tattood and not so dependable younger sister Norah (Emily Blunt) who still lives with their father (Alan Arkin). Family Dinner Together Rose is also having an affair with a local married cop (Steve Zahn) and her bastard son (hey, they bring that up in the movie) is having problems at school, such as licking things, including his teacher. Oscar gets kicked out of the school with a recommendation that he should be medicated. While trying to find out how to get her son in a private school her cop boyfriend tells Rose how lucrative it is to clean up messy biohazard removal. Thus we get Rose and her reluctant sister taking on the new, unpleasant task. Taking a stinking mattress to the dumpster After she reads some instructions, takes some classes and learns the regulations that say you can't throw blood soaked mattresses in a dumpster, Rose starts her own Sunshine Cleaning business. Rose and Norah cleaning up after a suicide The movie follows the lives of these family members as they work thru their various personal problems, alone and together, and has several sub-plots going, some of which get resolved and some left hanging. Good performances all around made this an enjoyable movie to watch.
I liked it. the first scene caught me off guard, but overall great ideas and easy to follow. It was more emotional then i thought. I would recommend it
Hmmm. This looks pretty similar.... On another note, I'd really like to go see this movie. I'm going just off the bias of it being the same director as Little Miss Sunshine....... I LOVE THAT MOVIE SOOOO MUCH. Anyways, thanks for the review thing Shale.
Yes, Alan Arkin loves to eat in diners as head of dysfunctional families. There were comments about the similarities with Little Miss Sunshine. Hmmm, even the title is similar.
I saw Sunshine cleaning a few weeks ago. I thought it was a wonderful movie, nothing of what i expected though. I saw little miss sunshine a few days ago, i was unaware it had the same director but when i was watching it i saw the similarietes.
